Wireless consultancy adds well known European arm
inCode, the global wireless technology and business consultancy, has announced the acquisition of specialist industry advisors Northstream. Northstream will become an inCode company, bringing unique industry experience and a strong European focus to the inCode portfolio.
Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Northstream provides strategic and tactical support on business and technology issues to global wireless companies. The incorporation of Northstream’s reach and expertise will strengthen the inCode group offering, enabling it to bring industry best practices to its clients irrespective of geography.
Founded in 1998, Northstream clients include more than 25 network operators, leading suppliers of networks and handsets, investment banks, regulators and standards bodies.
Following the acquisition, Northstream co-founders Bengt Nordström and Jonas Twingler will become Chief Strategy Officer and Managing Director, Technology & Strategy Group EMEA respectively.
“We are delighted to welcome the Northstream team to inCode. We share the same enthusiasm and vision for the wireless industry, and will benefit from complementary skills, experience and geographical knowledge base,” said Rob Chimsky, VP/GM International Operations and CTO, inCode. “Our combined strengths make us the only specialist consultancy that can guide wireless companies through the maze of opportunity they face now and in the future.”
Bengt Nordström, Northstream co-founder and CEO, said: “There is no such thing as too much experience. The wireless world is re-inventing itself on a continuous basis, and this new inCode company will be perfectly placed to provide an unrivalled source of strategic, tactical, technical and creative services to those looking to lead the mobile industry.”
The business and strategy focus of Northstream will complement the pure wireless consultancy expertise of inCode, and build on the company’s established European engineering consultancy services. Backed by Sequoia Capital, inCode has forged a market leadership position by providing true specialist and undiluted expertise in the wireless space.
Northstream clients will also benefit from inCode’s Wireless Technology Lab, a unique facility in the consulting field. The Lab gives an objective opportunity to gain hands-on access to tomorrow’s technology, explore end-to-end solutions prior to making major capital investments, and put theories into practice and study the results without risking commercial network resources.